Yamasurya, Yamasūrya, Yama-surya: 5 definitions
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryYamasūrya (यमसूर्य).—a building with two halls, one facing the west and the other facing the north.
Derivable forms: yamasūryam (यमसूर्यम्).
Yamasūrya is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms yama and sūrya (सूर्य).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryYamasūrya (यमसूर्य) or Yamasūryya.—n.
(-ryaṃ) A building with two halls, one with a western and the other with a northern aspect.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryYamasūrya (यमसूर्य):—[=yama-sūrya] [from yama > yam] n. a building with two halls (one with a western, the other with a northern aspect), [Varāha-mihira’s Bṛhat-saṃhitā]
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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